Improved packing apparatus



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CORNELIUS E. HAYNES, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making partofthesame To all to whom these presents may come:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS E. HAYNES, of Boston, in the county ofSuiolk, and State of' Massachusetts, have made an invention of' a newand useful Machine or Device for Gondensing or Packing Sugar and OtherGranular or Powdered Articles; and do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description thereof, due reference being had tothe accompanying drawings making part of this specifi-y accomplished;and to accomplish this purpose I ef feet, by suitable means, alternateor reciprocating titillations of the barrel or receptacle upon itsopposite edges, this motion having been found in practice themosteffectual one to accomplish the object sought.

My invention, then, may bel said to consistin effecting titillations ofa receptacle for sugar, dto., while being filled, the mechanical meansadopted in the present instance to carry out my purpose being theemployment of one or more horizontal tablets or disks, suitably disposedover orifices made in the floor of the establishment in which thematerial to be packed is placed, such tablets being supportedpreferablyupon slightlyfelevated ribs or projections surrounding the saidorifices, and having alternate elevations of opposite sides imparted tothem by the action of wiper-cams mounted upon a shaft situated below andin allignment with them, the impact of such wipers against the undersurface of the tablets imparting such titilations to them and to thebarrel or vessel placed upon them as to effect very rapidly andeffectually the settling or condensing of the material therein.

`In the drawings above mentioned as accompanying this specification, andwhich serve to illustrate my inventiona denotes what may be supposed torepresent the floor of an apartment ofy a sugar-house or other structurein which packing of any granular or powdered material is to take place,although my invention is not necessarilyapplied to such floor, but maycontain in` itself a substitute for such floor in the form of a bench orshelf.

b b denote two of a series of horizontal disks or tablets placed overorifices c c made through the door a, these tablets being formed withcircumscribing rims or walls, d, to prevent escape therefrom of the lbarrel or vessel placed upon them.

In practice, these walls, instead of being Icontinuous, should be formedwith an aperture, seen at e in the drawings, in order to permit thebarrel or other object to be rolled upon one edge from ofi` the tablets,thus avoiding the necessity of lifting them therefrom.

The said surrounding walls. of the tablets should be channeled, as shownat f in the drawings, in order to rest upon and nclose au annular ridgeor rib, g, which extends about each orifice, c c, 85e., and which, likethe rims of` the tablets, should be provided with an opening to permitof easy passage of the barrel through or from within its inclosure.

This rib g serves the twofold purpose of' preventing escape and loss ofsugar or other matter through the orifices c c of the floor, and ofpermitting easy tittilations of the tablets thereupon.

Below the floor a I mount, in suitable bearings, h h, a long shaft, t,and upon thisvsh'a; I mount a series of twin wiper-cams, j j, to eachtablet, these wipers being disposed directly below the tablet, and insuch manner as. to impinge alternately against the under sides of thesame, and at opposite edges thereof, the length of the apex of eachwiper being suficient to lift the edge of the tablet a short distanceabove or from ofi' its supporting rib.

'lhe two wipers of each set may be placed with their apexesdiametrically opposite each other, or only' a short distance apart; .butI prefer to so arrange them with respect to each other and to thetablets that only one of such tablets shall be acted upon at the sameinstant, by which means I greatly reduce the amount of power required todrive the shaft and cams, the capacity of the mechanism in this respectbeing limited only by the number of wipers which may be contained in acircle, allowing, as will be necessary, two wipers to each tablet.

In practice, I have been able to operate about six tablets to everyrevolution of the driving or tappetshaft, without any two being actedupon at the same instant, and consequently-I am enabled to agitate thesix tablets at the same expenditure of power that would be required forone, less the gain resulting from the increase in momentum which wouldaccrue in the interval between the action of' the tappets, it' but twoopenings of euch, and it would also he well to apply risers or spurs, kk, to the under side of each tablet, for the wipers or tappets toimpinge against.

By means of e. device organized as above explained I am enabled to fillbarrels or other objects with less power, in much less time, and to Stowmore iu a given bulli without injury tothe material, thanby any meansheretofore adopted.

Claims.

l. The combination ot' one or more tablets for-supporting the receptaclewhich contains the sugar or other article-to be vpacked with the camsfor tilting said tablet or tablets from side to side, as and for thepurposes shown and described.

2. The combination of a series of the barrelsup porting tablets, withthe cams for tilt-ing the same,

under the arrangement described, so that but 011e tab' let of the seriesshall be acted upon at a time, as and for the purposes speciled.` Y

3. The construction of t-he inclosing rim of the tablet, or the same,and that of the orifices below, as herein described, that is to say,with openings for permitting shown and specified.

' CORNELIUS E. HAYNES.

Witnesses I FRED. CURTIS, E. GRIFFITH.

